Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
JAMES JOYCEAnd then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.
More James Joyce Quotes
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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
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Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.
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Love loves to love love.
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Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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What’s in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.
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His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.
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Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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There’s no friends like the old friends.
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Fall if you will, but rise you must.
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
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The pleasures of love lasts but a fleeting but the pledges of life outlusts a lifetime.
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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
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I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.
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